The best career advice I ever got was from my mom in 1989, when this photo was taken. It was a year after I finished college and after a year studying in Thailand, and I was unsure what to do with my life:

Mom: "You should be a photographer!"

Me: "Mom ... that’s my hobby."

Yep, she never let me forget that one.

Thanks mom, miss you.

PHOTO: Chicago, Illinois. 1989, when my mom married my stepdad Tom.